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Sending an invite email with an HTML form and a PHP script

Answer 1

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Just get those POST variable and use the mail() function from PHP. It's not hard

More reference about mail(): http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

Fu4ny 2009-09-11 06:14:33

Answer 2

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$to      = $_POST['email1'];
$subject = 'your subject';
$message = 'Hello, your friend '.$_POST['sendername'].' recommends that you use thissite.com. Please visit the site.';
$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Repeat this process the times you need.

yoda 2009-09-11 06:14:47

Cool... quick question: how would I make thissite.com a hyperlink in the body of the email message?

John 2009-09-11 06:27:11

Also, how could I add an image to the bottom of the email message I send out?

John 2009-09-11 06:33:08

Answer 3

A:

You can use the mail function of php.

The code would be something like this

$msg = "a message";
$subject = "a subject";
mail($_POST['email1'], $subject,$msg,'From: ' . $_POST['sendername'] . "\n\r" );
mail($_POST['email2'], $subject,$msg,'From: ' . $_POST['sendername'] . "\n\r" );
mail($_POST['email3'], $subject,$msg,'From: ' . $_POST['sendername'] . "\n\r" );
mail($_POST['email4'], $subject,$msg,'From: ' . $_POST['sendername'] . "\n\r" );
mail($_POST['email5'], $subject,$msg,'From: ' . $_POST['sendername'] . "\n\r" );

Also changing your form to that would make the code more easy

<div class="email1">
<form method="post" action="friends.php">
email address of friend 1:<br>
<input name="email[]" type="text" size="55"><br>
<br>
email address of friend 2:<br>
<input name="email[]" type="text" size="55"><br>
<br>
email address of friend 3:<br>
<input name="email[]" type="text" size="55"><br>
<br>
email address of friend 4:<br>
<input name="email[]" type="text" size="55"><br>
<br>
email address of friend 5:<br>
<input name="email[]" type="text" size="55"><br>
<br>
your name:<br>
<input name="sendername" type="text" size="55"><br>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="send" name="Send" id="Send"/>
</form>

It would recude the code to

Hope this helps.

$msg = "a message";
$subject = "a subject";
foreach($_POST['email'] as $email){        
mail($email, $subject,$msg,'From: ' . $_POST['sendername'] . "\n\r" );
}

your comment code

$msg = "<html><body><h1><a href="thissite.com">thissite</a></h1><img src='http://youserver.com/img.jpg'&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;";
$subject = "a subject";
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: ' . $_POST['sendername'] . "\r\n";
foreach($_POST['email'] as $email){
mail($email, $subject,$msg,$headers);
}

RageZ 2009-09-11 06:15:47

cool... I'll give it a try. Quick question: how would I make thisite.com a hyperlink in the body of the email message?

John 2009-09-11 06:28:34

Also, how could I add an image to the bottom of the email message I send out?

John 2009-09-11 06:32:36

the most easiest way would be to make the mail being an html mail. you would put that image on your webserver and link it the email

RageZ 2009-09-11 06:51:14

I have edited the code.

RageZ 2009-09-11 06:55:05

@RageZ You could add hyperlink for thissite.com also. little change in your $msg, <a href='http://thissite.com'>thissite.com</a> instead of <h1>test</h1>

paulrajj 2009-09-11 07:21:35

@RageZ the code you provide works great, but when i try to change $headers .= 'From: ' . $_POST['sendername'] . "\r\n"; to $headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n";, the HTML and images don't work anymore. Any idea why?

John 2009-09-11 07:59:04

@john use the $header variable by concatenating for example, $headers .= 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n";

paulrajj 2009-09-12 11:55:07

voila changed the link ^^ don't why you asked that!

RageZ 2009-09-14 08:46:24

anyway would great if he approve my answer...

RageZ 2009-09-14 08:46:56

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